This is the story of three people, seemingly unconnected: Patrick Mercer, middle-aged and lying unconscious in a hospital bed; Laura Pearce, who has disappeared... » 

This is the story of three people, seemingly unconnected: Patrick Mercer, middle-aged and lying unconscious in a hospital bed; Laura Pearce, who has disappeared and whose parents are bereft; and of Colette, a young woman seeking a new life in a strange city. «